“Wonders of Plastics”
Essay Contest for Southern California
Society of Plastics Engineers is proud to sponsor our fourteenth annual essay contest.
Open to all junior high and high school students within Southern California.
Society of Plastics Engineers is proud to sponsor our thirteenth annual essay contest. Open to all junior high and high school students within Southern California. The essay must be sponsored by a teacher and must meet certain requirements (see entry form).
The 1st place winner will receive $500.00 honorarium and an additional $100.00 honorarium for their school from the Southern California Section of SPE. The 2nd place will receive $250.00 and 3rd place will $100.00 honorariums for student and $100.00 for their schools. All awards will be presented at our Education Night in March 2010 (location to be announced).
The 1st place winning essay will be published in The SPE Press, our Section’s monthly newsletter. The winning essay will also be forwarded to the Society’s headquarters to compete with winning essays from Sections around the world. The international prize consists of a $1,000.00 honorarium for the student and a $1,000.00 honorarium their school. The winning essay will be published in SPE’s official magazine, Plastics Engineering.
All essays must be received at the address listed below. Each must have an entry form attached. Copies of entry forms are acceptable. Essays may be co-authored. Once submitted essays become the property of SPE and will not be returned.
ENTRY SUBMITION REQUIREMENTS AND ENTRY FORM Click here
Entry deadline February 1, 2010
SUBMIT ESSAYS TO:
SPE - Rakshit Amba
25039 Wintergreen
Newhall, CA 91381
Email: rakshit_a@yahoo.com
Congratulations to the 2008 first place winner. Click here to read essay (pdf file)
The 1st place essay “Polyethylene Terephthalate: Friend or Foe?”
by Jesse Smith of Ontario High School
2nd place Plastic a Benefit or a Detriment
by Zachariah Rivera, Ontario High School, Ontario
3rd place Nylon: The Synthetic Fabric
by Jose Jimenez, Ontario High School, Ontario
TOP TEN LIST also includes the following:
Student High School
Felipe Camacho Ontario
Yozabeth Montoya John W. North
Ruben Alaniz Ontario
Cesar Raygoza Ontario
Nick Lawler Rancho Cucamonga
Phuong Nguyen Ontario
Christine Marcelle Ontario
Honorable Mentions
Omar Honegger Don Bosco Tech.
Sharlena Singelton Pomona Catholic
This year 153 students submitted entries from the following 5 high schools:
Don Bosco Tech. Rosemead, CA
J.W. North Riverside, CA
Ontario Ontario, CA
Pomona Catholic, Pomona, CA
Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
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